clade
/kleɪd/noun, verb
clade is spelled C-L-A-D-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, clade means “A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of clade is clades.
How many letters and syllables are in clade?
| Letters | 5: C-L-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is clade?
Clade appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce clade?
- US /kleɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-clade.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with clade?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as clade from its last stressed vowel (/eɪd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: laced, decal, cadel.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of clade
- clades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- clading participle, present
- claded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does clade mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
- 2
A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.
verb
- 1
To be part of a clade; to form a clade.
The phylogenetic tree for CiCBR shows it clades with the human cannabinoid receptors rather than with those other human GPCRs which most closely resemble the cannabinoid receptors.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Clade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense group:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does clade come from?
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “shoot, branch”). Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957 in a paper titled The Three Types of Evolutionary Process in Nature. Doublet of cladus and possibly holt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).